Colour Blast by Bee-Arty
We are thrilled to welcome back Sue Smyth as one of our guest artists for Paperific 2025 coming down from Queensland. Sue will be a running a variety of workshops throughout Paperific.
Sue is a formally trained artist, in Visual Communications, with a back ground in painting, design and sculpture, she turned to paper crafting later in life when children came along. Some 20 years later, she teaches interstate and at some of the leading stores around Brisbane. You will find Sue at the Scrapbooking Expos, and craft shows, and teaching on Cruises and retreats. She has also had the opportunity to demo at CHA in the USA. Sue has contributed to many design teams, including Couture Creations and Imaginarium Designs and has been published many times. Sue Smyth even Edited, Australian Scrapbook Ideas and Cardmaking in Easy Steps for several years. Later she wrote her own book 3 D Papercraft Projects. The many years of experience creating and teaching in the Scrapboooking and papercrafting world, has led to designing many paper ranges for Ultimate Crafts and Couture Creations, and now for Bee Arty. Sue has two distinct styles, with an assemblage mixed media side, honouring the artist side, and a shabby chic layered look that celebrates paper, both styles are a visual feast for the eyes.
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Paperific Steampunk Cards
We have created a set of Steampunk cards featuring gorgeous papers from Steampunk Town paper range and some of our mixed media. Lovely cards for the men in your life or those who prefer grunge and patina.
Please bring small scissors, tape and glue
Kits available at stand
Dates: Friday 29th August
Time: 09:15 - 10.30am
Cost: $12
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Heritage Layout
Everyone has old vintage photos they need to scrap and admire. This Autumnal layout is perfect for you, we team Shimmer Dusts, Colour Blast Pastes and Stencils by Bee Arty to create a wonderfully textured background and layer over, chipboard, fussy cut elements and flowers. Learn how to cluster and layer your layout to give wonderful depth and warmth.
To bring Brown Distress ink (ground expresso) scissors, brushes, glue and tape
DATE: Friday 29th August
TIME: 11:00 - 1:00 Pm
COST: $35
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Paperific Floral A5 Journal By BEE ARTY
Join us to create this wonderful mixed media notebook. We play with chipboard from Dusty Attic and our own Shimmer Dusts and Colour Pastes from Colour Blast by Bee Arty to give a shimmer and shine you will not believe. Learn a few tips and tricks with chipboard to make handmade dimensional flowers and a wonderfully tactile surface. A must do for the mixed media fan who loves new techniques and to get messy. (you could convert to a canvas if you bring one)
Mixed media product included in the kit
Dates: Friday 29th August
Time: 1.30pm-4pm
Cost: $55
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Beautiful Garden Layout
Day: Saturday 30th August
Time: 09:45
Cost: $40.00
Book HERE
Mixed media people this layout is for you; did you know our Colour Blast Artists Dye Inks work beautifully with Yupo paper? The effect is similar to alcohol inks but all you need for clean-up is water and no fumes. You will make your own interesting and organic background with inks and Yupo and then team it with Dusty Attic chipboard, altered flowers and ephemera to complete a beautiful layout (this could be fitted to a canvas too, if you bring one)
Artist Dye Ink included in Kit
To bring Brown Distress ink (ground expresso) scissors, brushes, glue and tape
Kits available at stand
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Garden Meadows Fancy Fold Cards
Day: Saturday
Time: 11:00 - 1:00 pm
Cost: $ 40
Bookings: HERE
Join Sue to make this sweet concertina mini album. The simple design is easily achievable, and it is decorated with a little paper and mixed media. You will create the gilded folk heart, then hand colour stamped flowers and alter some leaves, to create a gorgeous heart cluster for the cover. Then inside you can play with mixed media to make your own tags, or fill with photos, tickets and ephemera to your taste.
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Butterfly Pantina Storage Box
Day: Saturday 30th August
Time: 13:30 - 4:00 pm
Cost: $40.00
Bookings: HERE
Another stunning mixed media project with old world patina. Create this stunning project with a Dusty Attic cigar box and Bee Arty products. You learn some nifty little tricks with Vaseline and our Artist Dye Inks and Colour Pastes, while creating your own useful storage project for brushes, pencils or art materials. A must for the mixed media fan. This box teams beautifully with the Journal class of Sues.
To bring paint brushes, wipes, ground expresso distress ink or similar, personal trimmer and scissors, ruler and pencil.
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Critter Coasters
Day: Sunday 31st August
Time: 09:45
Cost: $10.00
Bookings:HERE
Join Sue Smyth and make some super cute critter coasters. You can take these techniques and apply to layouts or Art journaling pieces.
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Springtime Layout
Day: Sunday 31st August
Time: 11:00 - 1:00pm
Cost:$45
Bookings:HERE
Who doesn’t love spring, all the gorgeous flowers and colours. This layout plays with a large, altered chipboard wreath from Dusty Attic to create a base to build your page on. You will be surprised with some of the techniques involved in this class. We then layer hand painted flowers, fussy cut shapes and embellishments to finish a pretty layout for your album. Note, this could also be done on a canvas if you bring one.
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Time For Tea Mini Album
Day: Sunday 31st August
Time: 1:30 - 4:00pm
Cost: $50.00
Bookings:HERE
Fairy Garden Rock Salt cards
Come and have a play with rock salt, combined with Shimmer dusts you can achieve amazing results. We will show you some tips and tricks to create simply stunning backgrounds for your cards, and then go on and create 5 cards using stamps and dies. Everything in this class is created with plain white cardstock, see how you can use our versatile shimmer dusts to add a pop of colour to your work and have fun while you work. You will also receive a free die in the kit, making this class real value for money.